immigration policy

(Airs 04/11/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation about immigration with Lauren DesRosiers, Senior Staff Attorney, Adjunct Professor, and the incoming Director of the Immigration Law Clinic and Albany Law School.

Decades ago, my father-in-law, of blessed memory, decided to spend the night with me and my wife in our small Manhattan apartment after he finished some business meetings. Looking to impress dear old dad with our maturity and independence, we cleaned and shined our two-bedroom obsessively for a week. The big night, which happened to be Halloween, arrived, and we were nervous. Who doesn’t want to prove to their parents that your adult life is up to their expectations?

Massachusetts state lawmakers were unable to agree on a new spending bill that includes $250 million to address the state’s migrant crisis when their session ended Wednesday night.

An interview with Kristen Williams.

Ron DeSantis’ gambit, as I noted last week of sending Venezuelan immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, has in addition to the reaction of the Venezuelan community also raised doubts about whether or not he had the legal authority to do it, in spending Florida taxpayer dollars. Mr. DeSantis is now being sued by the migrants for fraud. It will be interesting to see if any DA in Florida picks up this matter, and potentially pursues criminal action against him.

The new book, The Deportation Machine, traces the long and troubling history of the US government's systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants…

The mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts is threatening the tax-exempt status of a church because an undocumented immigrant is being sheltered there. The…

Jorge Ramos, an Emmy award-winning journalist, Univision’s longtime anchorman and widely considered the “voice of the voiceless” within the Latino…

University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan delivered an inaugural state of the university address Monday evening highlighting the public…

What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers…